Seminars and Colloquia Archive

  • IFSH to Host 6th High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Symposium

    IFSH to Host 6th High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Symposium

    The Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) will present the sixth installment of its annual High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) Symposium, titled "Food Safety, HTS, Big Data, and Data Sharing: Perspectives from Food Industry, Governmental Agencies, Biotech Companies, and Academia," at the Chicago Marriott Southwest at Burr Ridge, 1200 Burr Ridge Parkway, on May 31–June 1, 2023 from 1–4:50 p.m.

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  • Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) Fellows to Present Research Findings

    Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) Fellows to Present Research Findings

    The Spring 2023 fellows of the Socially Responsible Modeling, Computation, and Design (SoReMo) initiative will present findings of their semester-long research project from 12:45–1:45 p.m. May 5 at the MTCC Auditorium. All are welcome to attend the forum.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol of Salmonella

    FDSN Seminar Series: Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol of Salmonella

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition will host Thomas Brenner, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Wang Lab of Molecular Food Safety at the University of British Columbia, for a seminar titled “Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol of Salmonella: A One-Health Approach” on Thursday, April 27, beginning at 12:45 p.m. The virtual seminar will take place on Zoom.

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  • Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Local Economic Specialization and the Long-term Impact of an Earthquake

    Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Local Economic Specialization and the Long-term Impact of an Earthquake

    Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event, “Local Economic Specialization and The Long-term Impact of an Earthquake” featuring guest speaker Marco Modica, an associate professor at the Gran Sasso Science Institute, L’Aquila, Italy. This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Thursday, April 20, 2023 over Zoom from 12:40–1:40 p.m.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: Approximating the Needle in the Haystack: Using Simulation Models to Improve Food Safety Controls

    FDSN Seminar Series: Approximating the Needle in the Haystack: Using Simulation Models to Improve Food Safety Controls

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition will host Claire Zoellner, a food safety scientist at iFoodDS, for a seminar titled “Approximating the Needle in the Haystack: Using Simulation Models to Improve Food Safety Controls ” on Thursday, April 20, beginning at 12:45 p.m. The virtual seminar will take place on Zoom.

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  • Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: Comparative Sensitivity of Social Media Data and Their Acceptable Use in Research

    Great Problems Great Minds Seminar Series: Comparative Sensitivity of Social Media Data and Their Acceptable Use in Research

    Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event titled, “More than Weight, Less than Driver’s License Number: Comparative Sensitivity of Social Media Data and Their Acceptable Use in Research” featuring guest speaker Libby Hemphill. This seminar is open to the public and will take place over Zoom on Thursday, April 13, 2023 from 12:40–1:40 p.m.

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  • MMAE Seminar: A Data-Driven Approach to Systems Engineering-Enabled Complex System Design with Professor Esma Karagoz

    MMAE Seminar: A Data-Driven Approach to Systems Engineering-Enabled Complex System Design with Professor Esma Karagoz

    The Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering presents Illinois Institute of Technology Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering Esma Karagoz for a seminar titled, “A Data-Driven Approach to Systems Engineering-Enabled Complex System Design.” This seminar is open to the public and will take place on Wednesday, April 19, 2023 in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center from 3:30–4:30 p.m.

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  • Turing Award Winner and Illinois Tech Alum Jack Dongarra to Give Lecture

    Turing Award Winner and Illinois Tech Alum Jack Dongarra to Give Lecture

    Join us Wednesday, April 12, at Hermann Hall for a celebration and presentation by Professor Emeritus at the University of Tennessee and an Illinois Tech alum Jack Dongarra, who won the most prestigious award in computing, the 2021 ACM A.M. Turing Award. Jack’s pioneering contributions to numerical algorithms and libraries that enabled high performance computational (HPC) software to keep pace with exponential hardware improvements for over four decades has, through the years, accelerated HPC.

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  • Midwest Mechanics Seminar: AI/Scientific Computing by Petros Koumoutsakos

    Midwest Mechanics Seminar: AI/Scientific Computing by Petros Koumoutsakos

    Armour College of Engineering’s Department of Mechanical, Materials, and Aerospace Engineering will welcome Herbert S. Winokur, Jr. Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences and Area Chair for Applied Mathematics Petros Koumoutsakos from Harvard University to present a lecture titled, “AI/Scientific Computing: Alloys for Flow Modeling and Control.” This seminar is open to the public and a part of the Midwest Mechanics Series. It will take place on Wednesday, April 12, 2023 in room 104 of the Rettaliata Engineering Center from 12:45–1:45 p.m.

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  • FDSN Seminar Series: Genetic Analysis of Traits in Food Crops that Affect the Human Gut Microbiome

    FDSN Seminar Series: Genetic Analysis of Traits in Food Crops that Affect the Human Gut Microbiome

    The Department of Food Science and Nutrition will host Andrew Benson, W. W. Marshall Distinguished Professor of Biotechnology and Allen Food for Health Presidential Chair at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for a seminar titled “Genetic Analysis of Traits in Food Crops that Affect the Human Gut Microbiome: A New Approach to Drive Crop Breeding Programs Toward Human Health” on Thursday, April 13, beginning at 12:45 p.m. The virtual seminar will take place on Zoom.

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